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OK, keeping an open mind, this sounds like a good idea for a startup: (i) try to solve an important problem that has bugged people for millennia and (ii) do so

by Jun8 12y ago

OK, keeping an open mind, this sounds like a good idea for a startup: (i) try to solve an important problem that has bugged people for millennia and (ii) do so by exploiting inefficiencies of the system (different gender ratios in different geographical locations). The basic idea is nothing new, of course (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail-order_bride http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail-order_bride). Still, makes you think, why didn't it work out? My simple explanation is that the organizers went for the dumb Big Bang Theory thing: brainacs paired with dashing beauties. I would hypothesize that if you were to select random 20 young women from NYC and paired them up with random men from SF (random within reason, of course) you would have had much less problems.

trhway 12y ago
>(i) try to solve an important problem that has bugged people for millennia 1. it has bugged almost everybody else for uncountable millennia before people :) So if it were a problem, the evolution would have already solved it. Which brings us to the next point : 2. it isn't a problem really, it is the solution that evolution came up with to make sure that blobs of organic matter move their a&&es, tails, tentacles, ...
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  - trhway 12y ago
    while i don't agree in part or in whole with your statements, it may very well happen that the way human race has been doing it is not viable in the long term and thus we'll be succeeded by the other species who would do it differently.
    - jfoutz 12y ago
      Those species that are assembled by humans need to hurry up and start assembling themselves. Or, they don't, depending on how you feel about our survival chances.
  - jasonwatkinspdx 12y ago
    Guess you forgot about Bonobos with your psueduo evolutionary bullshit.
  - ArkyBeagle 12y ago
    Marriage as an ironclad contract came about because of primogeniture - who inherits the (gol dern) paterfamilias' estate? Hence strong proscriptions against adultery, no divorce.... the consort of a King might be committing treason through sexual misconduct... Robin Hanson has a forager-vs-farmer mores system useful for analyzing this sort of thing. Industrial systems bring back forager mores; high tech just blows it all to heck. It makes me think more of the women headed by Frances Farmer's character (Strawberry Alice) in "Unforgiven." And therefore seems sad. The plummeting birth rate is pretty much to be expected, one way or the other.

by Jun8 12y ago

trhway 12y ago

>(i) try to solve an important problem that has bugged people for millennia 1. it has bugged almost everybody else for uncountable millennia before people :) So if it were a problem, the evolution would have already solved it. Which brings us to the next point : 2. it isn't a problem really, it is the solution that evolution came up with to make sure that blobs of organic matter move their a&&es, tails, tentacles, ...

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- trhway 12y ago
  while i don't agree in part or in whole with your statements, it may very well happen that the way human race has been doing it is not viable in the long term and thus we'll be succeeded by the other species who would do it differently.
  - jfoutz 12y ago
    Those species that are assembled by humans need to hurry up and start assembling themselves. Or, they don't, depending on how you feel about our survival chances.
- jasonwatkinspdx 12y ago
  Guess you forgot about Bonobos with your psueduo evolutionary bullshit.
- ArkyBeagle 12y ago
  Marriage as an ironclad contract came about because of primogeniture - who inherits the (gol dern) paterfamilias' estate? Hence strong proscriptions against adultery, no divorce.... the consort of a King might be committing treason through sexual misconduct... Robin Hanson has a forager-vs-farmer mores system useful for analyzing this sort of thing. Industrial systems bring back forager mores; high tech just blows it all to heck. It makes me think more of the women headed by Frances Farmer's character (Strawberry Alice) in "Unforgiven." And therefore seems sad. The plummeting birth rate is pretty much to be expected, one way or the other.